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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by The Purple Booker.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This is my choice of the day:

A Pair of Docks – Book 1 of the Derivatives of Displacement series by Jennifer Ellis

59% Mark sat with his hands placed on his legs to avoid germs. When the bus stopped, Simon didn’t reach out fast enough and Mark flew forward and hit the seat ahead of them. He attempted to get back up without touching anything, looking like an overweight seal that couldn’t quite get back on land.
“Are you okay?” Abbey asked.
Mark resumed looking at the red and blue map of the Coventry bus routes on one of the roof panels. “I am not thinking about my current situation. I have decided this is not happening.”

BLURB: Fourteen-year-old Abbey Sinclair likes to spend her afternoons in the physics lab learning about momentum and gravitational pull. But her practical scientific mind is put to the test when her older brother, Simon, discovers a mysterious path of stones that allows them, along with Abbey’s twin, Caleb, to travel back and forth between their world and what appears to be…the future.

Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones who know about the stones, and they soon realize their lives are in danger from a man known only as Mantis. Abbey, Caleb, and Simon must follow a twisting trail of clues that will lead them from their autistic neighbor, Mark, to a strange professor who claims to know the rules of the stones, and to multiple futures—some of whose inhabitants don’t want to stay put.

I found this on my Kindle – I don’t know how it got there as Himself can’t recall acquiring it… But I’m really glad he did. It is a wonderful read – although it is described as a children’s book, many readers have reclassified it as YA, which I think is more appropriate, despite the age of the protagonist. What I do know is that it has grabbed my attention and pulled me into the story and I’m mightily relieved that I have the rest of the series also on my Kindle – because this is a world that I dreamt about last night…